Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director of the War Manpower Commission in New York State at $8,000 a year, ubiquitous Anna Marie Rosenberg, who will quit as regional director of the Social Security Board ($7,500), adviser to Nelson Rockefeller ($6,000), labor-relations consultant for R. H. Macy-Bamberger department stores ($20,000), and I. Miller shoe company...
Outstanding figures were Chile's President, Juan Antonio Ríos; Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa; Chilean Public Health Minister Dr. Miguel Etchebarne (Congress president); Osvald Stein of the International Labor Office in Montreal; and Guest Nelson Rockefeller of the U.S. They convened as the first Inter-American Conference on Social Security...
...Said Nelson Rockefeller (showing the paternal influence of Social-minded John D. Jr.): "No war that comes about through the mass problems of social security can be truly won until social security is provided for those who were driven mad by the lack of it. . . . We must arrange cooperatively for the mobilization of these basic resources...
Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...
...appointment to be rubber dictator was due to the fact that WPBoss Donald Nelson, a U.P. director and longtime friend, submitted Bill's name to the President. Jeffers was at his Omaha desk when the President telephoned, saying he had a job for Bill Jeffers; Bill accepted then & there, went to Washington next...